The Collatz conjecture asks whether the following procedure always terminates at 1. Take any positive integer n. If it’s odd,…
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Progress on the Collatz conjecture
The Collatz conjecture is for computer science what until recently Fermat’s last theorem was for mathematics: a famous unsolved problem…
Continue ReadingPrime numbers and Goldbach’s conjecture visualization.
isn’t it?The German mathematician G. F. B. Riemann (1826–1866) observed that the distribution of prime numbers is very closely related…
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Here are a couple more observations along the same line, illustrating the odd Goldbach conjecture and Lagrange’s four-square theorem with…
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